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Firefox went from being accessible to displaying a notice saying that I did not have the appropriate permissions to access the shortcut. I restarted my computer and it did not change. I reinstalled Firefox and lost years worth of bookmarks. Are they gone for real? Wtf happened?

Hi Folks,

I've used Firefox for years with no problem. Yesterday, I was seeking out a specific font. The website looked legit, but then a security block happened and I don't recall if it was Firefox security or Acronis that flashed a brief "block" announcement. In any case, from that point on, several "racey" websites popped up every time I loaded Firefox. This happened even after I restarted my computer. I then checked to see if I had pop-ups blocked on the Firefox options. I didn't, so I checked the box against pop-ups. But what happens now is Firefox does an attempt to load TWICE with an odd jerk-flash movement. Only one Firefox browser window comes up -- and that's good -- but SOMETHING is still trying to make those "racey" websites load. Why? How?

All of that to say that I'm concerned about security. Should I uninstall Firefox and reinstall?

Thanks for your input! Bob Anderson

I have downloaded Firefox updates. Why do I keep getting this message "The latest version of Yahoo Mail is not supported on your browser. Please use a supported browser below or use Basic Mail." when I try to access my yahoo email? I have to repeatedly download Firefox so that I don't have to use the "basic mail." I don't like using Basic Mail. Thank you!

When entering credit card info in a web form, Firefox will pop up a dialog asking if I'd like to save the card info. If I click yes, the dialog closes but the info is not saved. If I go into settings where one can view the saved cards and enter the info to save a new one, I can enter one but again it does not actually save. There is no error, it just doesn't save. Tailing journalctl shows no errors, and launching Firefox from a console and watching the output doesn't show any error either.

It's been this way over several updates over the course of a few months (as long as I've been using Firefox on this computer).

I have to restart the browser several times a day, to the point where the bloody thing is barely usable.

Windows 10 Amd Ryzen 7 5800X, Gigabyte X570 Aorus Elite, G.SKILL FlareX 32gb 3200

I recently joined a paid instructional website. There are several videos that I need to watch, but when I start to play any, a green bar covers part of the video. How do I get rid of it? This doesn't happen with YouTube videos, btw.

bold textI have really become disillusioned with this email program, which I have used for many years on my Windows computers.

I have 5 email addresses; 3 of those were rendered inaccessible with the June update to Thunderbird; only the first and last addresses work now (or did, until today's update: 91.3.2, see below). Four email identities are handled by Zoho.com, the 5th is a gmail account. If I shift the order of the email accounts in Thunderbird, again only the first and last accounts are able to log into email, the others are rejected as having incorrect passwords.

The correct passwords are stored in Thunderbird, they are again rejected when re-entering them as requested by Thunderbird.

I have been screwing around with this issue for 5 months and have not been able to resolve it. I also have 2 laptops with Thunderbird installed. Regrettably all 3 computers were set for automatic updates to Thunderbird, and all have had the same issue since June, despite no changes/alterations on my part.

Today I updated to the latest release (91.3.2) on my desktop computer. I don't recognize the initial user screen now. Thunderbird only displays one of my email accounts, dunno what happened to the other 4 which are still in Account Settings. Also, my access to local folders is gone with this new release (or at least not obvious... all accounts and local folders used to appear on the left column).

I have no idea of how to revert to earlier Thunderbird releases, and my research has not revealed that secret.

Thunderbird has gone downhill in a hurry these past 5 months, and I haven't found a way to fix it. I would switch to another email product except that my Thunderbird local folders of saved emails would be gone forever (actually, this latest update may have rendered them inaccessible, so that issue may be moot).

Aaarrgghh, why are these people screwing up a perfectly good product??? At the very least, they could provide a way to save the prior version of the users' Thunderbird (and the users settings/preferences) before destroying it, maybe even make that save/restore a mandatory part of the update.

Just for grins I clicked on "Events and Tasks/Export" a moment ago... nothing happened.

Firefox 91

See screenshot.

I've been a Firefox user since the days of 2.0. I know what DuckDuckGo is, what search is, what it does and how to use it. I've set this search engine up myself! I don't need a tutorial.

How can I disable this misfeature?

Thanks, Alex

Whenever I click the PiP floating icon on video-hosting sites such as YouTube, the PiP window pops up but does not stay on top. It is immediately hidden by other windows. I always need to open the window menu and enable "Always on Top". Shouldn't this be enabled by default? Is there anything I can do to make it enable by default?

For reference, I'm using GNOME 41.1 on Manjaro Linux.

• • • MY HOMEPAGE I CANNOT GO ON WITHOUT IT ITS A PART OF WHO I AM N TO BE HONEST I FEEL NAKED WITHOUT IT BEEN SICK TOO*** Plz bring back or I'm sad to say I WILL BE LEAVING THE MOZZILLA FAMILY ...AND I GO BACK TO THE NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR FAMILY IT WILL BE A SAD DAY UNLESS U CAN SEE IT IN UR HEARTS NOT TO DEVESTATE A USER SINCE NETSCAPE not to many can say that I REMEMBER TOO JUST WHEN IE XPLORER AND ITS OWNERS THOUGHT THEIR BROWSER WAS KING OF THE HILL IN 1984 HERE COME THE INCREDIBLY GIFTED DEVELOPERS TO INTRODUCE NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR IN 1985 AND TO PUT IT MILDLY IT KICKED IE'S BUTT AND U KNOW WHO'S?? ELSE BUTT I AM CERTAIN THE HOMEPAGE NEEDS TO BE RETURNED ITS LUDICROUS EVERY YEAR SINCE 1985 IT WAS THERE FOR US NOW LETS BE THERE FOR IT ITS LIKE APPLE LOOSING THE 3.5 MM HEADPHONE JACK DUHHHH I KNOW U ALL DONT WANT DUUUHHH AFTER THIS WHICH WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS THE DAY FIREFOX PUMMELED FROM GREATNESS AS FAR AS IM CONCERNED ANYWAYS

I just had to disable my speed dial FVsomething and Eversync because I found out that it was spyware! Firefox tried to tell me this and disabled it but I put it back, and then my husband checked it out and found out about the spyware on it. I'm bereft. I've used that speed dial for years and it's been such a big help for me. I had over 100 dial all set up.

So my question is, what speed dial can I use in Firefox? Everything I checked out isn't monitored so what do I do?

Help!

I don't know how this started but I'd be really grateful for help. Firefox is virtually unusable now. (See attached photo.)

And BTW:

I can't even see how this could be helpful to anyone but maybw it's to do with specific sight problems some people have? Why doesn't something show up to say "You are in xxx mode which makes your screen purple. The purpse of this function is xxx To return to normal mode do yyy."?

I think Firefox staff, like most people in IT, really don't understand that non-techies like me just want the thing to work! No, I don't want to spend hours sorting it out!

Nick

The "restore previous session" option is no longer in the History section. All I can restore is individual pages. I often have a lot of tabs open, and twice now just in the last few weeks, I've lost the whole lot. One of those times I had closed Firefox, the other time it closed for no apparent reason.

Hello, Which version of Firefox supports, fire path and firebug extensions? In my Laptop Firefox version 94.0 is installed. What should I do to install fire path and firebug extensions for my automation testing?

Thank you

I set the option "mark as deleted" under "server settings" for all my accounts.

For one of my accounts, if I move an email with TB60 (Linux, Cyrus IMAP) it is marked as deleted, but does not disappear from the original folder (I have just checked this). Under TB91 the email disappears from the folder as if it has been auto-compacted. I think TB68 behaves as TB60, but I cannot remember/test TB71. Is there a setting I can use to recover the old behaviour?

Thanks for any help.